I don't think anyone didn't notice how much of a willful brat Allison Scagliotti was on Warehouse 13. While her character was supposed to be 16 or 17, she started on the show, freshly 18 years of age. Most adult humor on the show was hinted at and left to Joanne Kelly's character.
One hinted at action being where Joanne and Eddie McClintock were coming back from a zoo which had a monkey cage, and Saul Rubinek tried to be helpful and said to Joanne, "you have some phlegm in your hair" and she agonized, responding with "it's not phlegm, it's..." and she made a face, leaving you to fill in what you thought it was. In fact, one scene early in the show had Eddie saying he was going to pump another agent for information and suggested he and her were going to get it on, by saying to Joanne Kelly, that he was going to go spank the other agent, to wit, Joanne Kelly grinned and smacked one hand into the other, seemingly like she would enjoy watching that.
But back to Allison. Saul Rubinek was said to be the "father" (or grandfather to Allison) of this "family" and if it wasn't the constant jibes she made at Saul about his weight, and refer to him getting stuck in a whole like Poohbear, almost egging him on to give her character a little hand to butt action. Then there was that time where she lied to Saul and his stage father (played by Judd Hirsch), saying to each that the other was dying, to get the two to meet. Cue close up of Saul and Judd turned slightly, looking over their shoulders at Allison who was caught in her lies and bending over the back of the sofa between the two angry men who were sitting on it. But no.The scene that most contributed to what should have been a spanking scene for Allison and hinted at such action, was an episode where Allison wanted to bring agent Jinx back from the dead, and Allison dressed up as a sexy nurse (nurses don't wear short light blue skirts but scrubs (pant suits)) so the allusion was already sexy and leg showing, and Allison is about to shoot a guard to get into a secure facility, when Saul magically appears grabs Allison by the wrist, saying sternly, "Enough!" then tows her off screen, with Allison giving little girl "ow, ouch, okay, enough, please" or some such like she was already getting a spanking.
That her character didn't age quickly, but remained around 17, despite four seasons passing by, meant nothing. They wanted her to perpetually be a bratty 17 year old, who got into trouble and lied profusely to get her way. The most adult in humor they let her charcter get was in one episode where she had to save the warehouse and had to shoot a rocket launcher straight up, causing her to get doused in warehouse slime, and she quipped with glee "I'm ready for my silkwood shower" (which Hollywood erringly described as sexual, forced and highly invasive (as in every nook and cranny) of which it is factually not). However, Allison's character in that episode and one or two episodes leading up to it, was getting her butt repeatedly zapped by the warehouse, causing her to respond with surprised shock, embarrassment, then pained acceptance that she's been bad and this was the warehouse's way of punishing her, justly.
Lot's of spanking hinting, and suggestion, where an in-scene spanking would have been shorter, more enjoyable (for viewers) and I think Ms. Scagliotti might have been down with it happening on film, to get it over and done with, instead of all the tension and hinting for several episodes. |